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The Diary of a CEO

33 laws for business and life, drawn from hundreds of interviews

Rules covering self, story, philosophy and team, distilled by Steven Bartlett from hundreds of long-form interviews. It leans heavily on behavioral psychology and on his own history of building and losing things. Written for people early in building something.

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